View from Within. . .Tree&Girl

[gahspidy]

Another opportunity arose. . .
What do you think?

[readingr]

Gary,

What can I say - for me its perfect just the right amount of detail inside and the use of the rule of thirds in the window is excellent.

Perhaps a bit of burning in of the cloud where the broken glass is would make this even better.

Roger

[Greg McCary]

Gary, I like the way the tree flows from the bottom right to the center at the top. The lighting, time of day, and the way it cast shadows is perfect. I also like the way the broken window gives you a glimpse of the clouds an breaks up the picture into different tones. Also adding to the picture is the position of the window lock. The position of the girl in the lower pane almost looks like another picture all together. Even her posture is dead on. As always with your pictures, wonderful conversion to b&w and perfect exposure. As Seb stated, you just keep raising the bar. Excellent work again.....
Greg

[MB1]

I'd like to see a large print of this one. There is a lot of detail I'd like to get a better look at.

First rate!

The only thing I can think of that I would like to see differently is to have the person/girl be a few steps closer to take up more of that pane and to be more clearly female.

[veggie]

Love it! great timing!

[Chunk]

Very nice. A great tree and this time the portal has a lot of interesting detail.

[Overbeyond]

I always loved your inside looking out shots and this is no exception. There is a lovely mysterious mood to all of them.
The light on the right side frame and reveal is lovely and I like that you have included the piece of furniture inside; far more interesting than the standard plain window frame crop. (I almost missed this until I scrolled down)
On close inspection I'm intrigued by the top right pane. I'm not too sure if its a filler piece of card or something. Also in the third pane down on the right I see something as well as the broken glass, someting like and old fly screen maybe. I feel I am not seeing the cloud as others mentioned. Whatever these things are, and the total lack of uniformity of the panes all help to create a lot for for us to look at. A great window indeed. And then the bonus of what is available to see outside.
Tom

[GB1]

Pretty decent shot there. I like the contrast myself. However, I either wish that the window was horizontally centered in the photo or that the extra space was on the left side, since there appears to be a ledge on the bottom left. The girl in the photo adds interest.
GB

[Ronnoco]

A tighter crop would really be helpful as well as a little more detail in the dark window frame.

Ronnoco

[Seb]

Another opportunity arose. . .
What do you think?

This is dead on as far as I am concerned. I can't add much to what was already said other than this is the kind of photograph that need to be printed big to be fully appreciated. This small version for web displaying certainly doesn't do justice to the image.

Seb

[gahspidy]

Thanks all for your comments.
This is actually cropped a little tighter than I wanted it to be when i set up the picture initially, but if I had zoomed out or stepped back any further I would start losing the girl in the scene. I had to use a wide angle lens on this as there was a wall right behind where I was positioned.
I did not want to center the frame, so as to have a framed frame, so to speak.Moving the window to the right of the frame and having more of the object/furniture at the lower left would have been good, I agree. I was as far over to my left (lots of debris and stuff in the way) as I could get my tripod to set up and so I think I went for this composition so as not to have to do a whole lot of straightening in PS by hitting the window on an angle, which I was already doing but would have had to do more if I wanted the window to the right of the frame. In hindsight, I think I could have attacked it that way, but just grabbed what I felt most comfortable with at the time. This was a restricted area and we were trying to do this quickly in between guard rounds.
The window and it's panes of broken glass were very interesting and I believe there was some sort of fabric or bugscreen type material hanging from some areas at the top, as Tom reffered to.
Thanks again for the comments, and your time.